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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yea it's kinda cool and all, but when is XANA gonna make it's appearance‽‽⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t thought about that show in forever and a half

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's fire... Maybe concerning but fire still⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are still secrets that nobody knows in Noita.

  Eye messages, for one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What your coffee preparation method says about you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use an off-brand clone of a Nespresso machine with off-brand pods. Hannah Montana Linux?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Times Tech Staff Strike, Ask Readers Not to Play Wordle and Other Games in Solidarity - GAMESCENSOR⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t get them money, but it still registers as engagement with the audience which I think is really the only true metric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bears Cave⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about 90% effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pringhouls⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen a Pringle without width suspended in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn right I'm a silly goose⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of the Swedish Fish Theory in a way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With apologies to the rest of the industry, boots on the ground equipment reseller-wise: Upgrading scanner scales costs us ~$1,800/lane/store for a 7895 before our markup (and I don’t know the actual figures, I’m not a money guy), and we barely convinced store owners that EMV was needed because of the liability shift. I’m skeptical that UPCA is going away entirely, and would expect GTINs to be more complimentary than anything.

  We’re having a hell of a time convincing people to get off of POS applications that were sold ~10 years ago running Windows Server 2008 R2 and an app that is just recently past its support cutoff. They would need to completely replace their POS in order to upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Effort require Effort⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With $100,000, I invested it and then I turned it into $16,000.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still haven’t heard of anything in this space, as a part of an NCR dealer with ~170 independently owned grocery stores as customers. A fair amount of them don’t have imaging scanners, and the scanners they do have can’t scan QR. Not saying it’s not happening, but I am strongly skeptical that the industry is switching away from UPC/EAN as a whole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t heard of an actual direct initiative here, that 2027 date sounds more like marketing for IBN than an actual industry-wide push. Walmart is banking on RFID, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a reminder...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another commenter here: the double reply thing was likely an app bugging on sending a reply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redirect to prevent back button⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, this comment was mainly just providing the previous user with a correction because they seemed to think that the other person that they were replying to was talking about forcing people to use phone apps, which I assume we all agree is bad and would likely work if there were a concentrated push for it.

  Concerning your points after “using the browser”: I want websites to use replaceState and manage their own intra-page navigation with a cookie. They can still intercept the back button as they do now, but they should only get the single history entry until they switch to a new page, if they ever do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redirect to prevent back button⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’m disputing your facts, I was responding to the scenario you presented which was, essentially, “what about email”. I would say it’s fair that my opinion on a canonical browser history is solid and unlikely to change, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redirect to prevent back button⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the word ‘app’ was being used in place of ‘webapp’ there, which is the general target audience for this feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redirect to prevent back button⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that email and browser history are similar enough to make a meaningful comparison, honestly.

  Maybe someone could say that, but I am not.

  I see a specific instance of a specific bad feature being specifically abused. I don’t care to entertain whatabouts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redirect to prevent back button⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I accept that it’s how things are, I just personally feel as though the only way this feature could ever work as it does now is with the implementation it has now, and that the convenience of single page webapps that use history manipulation is not worth the insane annoyance of helping my grandma get out of websites that tell her that she has been hacked by the FBI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redirect to prevent back button⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m frustrated that removing bad functionality is being treated as a slippery slope with obviously bad and impossible jokes as the examples chosen.

  I see a bad feature being abused, and I don’t see the removal of that bad feature as a dangerous path to getting rid of email. I don’t ascribe the same weight that you seem to towards precedent in this matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨after 40 all meals are horror⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … With all currants in it? Just like mother used to forge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clanfolk, a (very alpha and also very playable) game that draws clear inspiration from Rimworld, but has a kind of tech progression that feels spiritually similar to bootstrapping a factory in Factorio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve attempts to deal with jokes, memes and ASCII art reviews on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re still there, just deprioritized as compared to actual helpful reviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trending⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what a solution would look like here. In your opinion, what should be done to stop Valve from being anti-competitive? What specifics should I be raising awareness of and looking into? What should be done by/about Gabe Newell?

  I would like to know more about what you believe the solution here is, because at its core I see Valve as the end result of very talented and self-driven people doing an amazing job at delivering a very good product. I would hope that would lead to success, and I am given to understand that Gabe (to focus back in) is not a disinterested corporate figurehead as the position is with other software companies.

  There’s some amount of anti-competitive behavior that is just… Doing business in a space with competitors. I write private code that I use myself and within the company I work for that I choose not to share with my competitors, is that anti-competitive behavior? This is a dumb example, but also I haven’t seen a direct convincing argument as to what Valve is doing to deserve the label.

  In many ways, to provide my viewpoint, they’ve directly supported both unofficial modifications to their storefront by users (Decky Loader, for loading steam deck mods), modifications to their hardware (OLED screen mods, replacement parts on iFixit for reasonable prices), and even support Windows on the deck and are beginning (through reading commit logs) to support competitors’ hardware in their custom OS. They’ve singlehandedly pushed gaming on Linux into the mainstream eye and are doing well with it.

  All that to say that I don’t think the way that Gabe became a billionaire was bad, and while I would prefer he use his personal wealth to better society I both don’t know enough about what he does with his money to know whether or not he’s already doing that and don’t know and think that any solution here would genuinely go against fundamental liberties and personal freedoms that I personally agree with. I’m not an absolutist on this, but enough of what I do know about the history of Valve and Gabe in specific lead me to lend him some amount of goodwill, because he has through his works and actions earned it from me.

  I don’t disagree that billionaires are bad. Personally, I strongly believe in a Star Trek post-monetary future.

  I wouldn’t call Gabe Newell a friend, although I suspect I don’t disagree with many of his opinions.

  You are able to email him at gaben@valvesoftware.com, as is anyone else. I’ve emailed twice. Once when I was 13 to inform him of a bug in portal 2, and once a few years ago to inquire about steam being ported to arm.

  There was a lot to explain about my position there and it may be a bit disjointed. If there’s anything I can clarify on my thinking, I’d be happy to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trending⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see how posting to lemmy in general is going to influence people that disagree with you both because I don’t think there are many people here that do and also I think that your comment in particular is so far removed from the topic of this article that it borders on being a non-sequitor entirely, and I’m worried you may get the feeling that the people downvoting you are against your message and not the fact that your message isn’t relevant beyond being a knee-jerk reactionary cry against Valve, one of the only privately owned companies that seems to listen to user feedback as thoroughly as the article demonstrates.

  I don’t believe Valve is a monopoly and I’ve directly been able to talk to Gabe Newell via email multiple times over multiple years. Maybe some of their inter-business dealings could be better for their business partners, but as a lifelong steam user that so far has felt comfortable buying almost every hardware product they’ve put out I continue to feel comfortable supporting them because they seem to actually care about their customers from what I have directly experienced.

  I don’t mean any of this in a confrontational tone, and I apologize for the general shill vibes of that second paragraph. I’d be happy to continue the discussion, I think your message is correct and good and I think there are better more effective ways of acting on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trending⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, comments are free. If you believe that’s a decent enough use of your limited time on this Earth, who am I to argue?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam adds new "Trending Free" tab to hide demos from new & trending⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This would’ve been a useless comment even if it were relevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign of the times?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve got you covered there too: printables.com/…/962134-500-cigarettes-adapter

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon ponders the cosmic mysteries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what it is?

  The “infinite growth” wire was incorrectly attached to the “various cells” port instead of “teeth”.

  Classic mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late for work⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s still sterile though

  Not the way I use it, it’s not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late for work⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Synthetic urine exists.

  Yeah, but it never tastes quite the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It just does.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmm, it being wrapped in a flat usually indicates being repackaged from larger foodservice sized containers, which my own experience with West Virginia food desert grocery stores has led me to understand is common in some areas.

  I’d expect fresh ground to be oily-er too, enough that stocking it upright like that wouldn’t be a great idea.